Thesis Chapters

Karin Öberg

A draft of the complete thesis can be downloaded here (file size is about 10 mb)

Thesis Outline

1. Introduction - draft available for download

   Spitzer observations of ices

2. The c2d Spitzer legacy: Ice formation in star-forming regions - draft available for download
3. The c2d Spitzer spectroscopy survey of CH₄ ice around low-mass young stellar objects - published (Öberg et al., ApJ, 2008, 678, 2, 1032-1041)

   Ice dynamics and spectroscopy

4. Effects of CO₂ on band profiles and band strengths of H₂O in mixed H₂O:CO₂ ices - published (Öberg et al., A&A, 2007, 462, 3, 1187-1198)
5. Quantification of segregation dynamics in ice mixtures - Accepted by A&A, (preprint available for download)
6. Trapping of volatile ices during ice mixture desorption - draft available for download

   Ice photoprocesses

7. Photodesorption of CO ice - published (Öberg et al., ApJL, 2007, 662, L23-L26 )
8. Photodesorption of ices I: CO, N₂ and CO₂ - published (Öberg et al., A&A, 2009, 496, 281-293)
9. Photodesorption of ices II: H₂O and D₂O - published (Öberg et al., ApJ, 2009, 93, 1209-1218 )
10. Formation rates of complex organics in UV irradiated CH₃OH-rich ices - submitted to A&A (draft available for download )
11. Photochemistry in HO:CO₂:NH₃:CH₄ ices - revised (072309) draft available for download

    Gas phase tracers of ice processes

12. Cold gas as an ice diagnostic toward low mass protostars - published (Öberg et al., A&A, 2009, 494, L13-L16 )